i see you in my dreams
allen ginsberg
Well, of course it does. Because it puts me in a really bad mood. And usually I transform it, and I get out of being angry. I never stop. Never. I never go off the stage. But now I think what I’m going to have to do is hire a couple of guys to pound the shit out of people who make a sound while I’m playing.
— diamanda galás (Is that something that really influences the performance?)
chelsea wolfe by david fathi
solar eclipse may 20, 2012 - papago park (phoenix)by michael chow

“It was at a Dylan Thomas poetry festival in Wales. I was invited to play in the tiny front room of his boathouse. Patti was supposed to play the next day… All my instruments were in the hotel lobby and she’d just arrived and put out a call to ask if anyone had a spare Dylan Thomas poetry book, and I had one – in fact, it was the one my grandmother left me in her will. I went to the staircase and she was standing there at the top, and she said, ‘Whose instruments are those?’ and I said, ‘Mine.’ And she said, ‘Can you play them?’ ‘Yeah.’ And she was like, ‘Great, let’s do a show.’ She said, ‘What’s your name?’ so I told her, and she just said, ‘I’m Patti.’ It was so great. She taught me four songs in her bedroom and the next day we played in the boathouse and again that night in the town hall. It was all really improvised and nobody really knew what they were doing. I just love that! So many musicians are so precious. You try to do a duet with some, and it’s so complicated. I think from the old Offset days I’m really spontaneous. It’s so thrilling to make spontaneous music or art. I haven’t ever met anybody like Patti in the music industry, who is so exactly how I want to be. She’s timeless, ageless. She turned up with no tour support, wandered through the village with her camera taking photos, falling into conversation with people. She lives with her heart and eyes open. The last few shows I got to play with Lenny Kaye and all the old band. On the last show I did back-up vocals for People Have The Power and Ghost Dance!”


patrick wolf
i will never get tired of reading/hearing this story. ♥

by edmund dulac
everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people i care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
— thomas hardy

MAURICE SENDAK
June 10, 1928 - May 8, 2012

“I have nothing now but praise for my life. I’m not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can’t stop them. They leave me and I love them more. What I dread is the isolation. I love the world. There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I’m ready, I’m ready, I’m ready.” (2011)

dein blick. deine hände.
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

type o negative - wolf moon (including zoanthropic paranoia)

…and off i fly. HAPPY BELTANE!!!! ☽(j. searle dawley’s snow white, 1916)
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

the sugarcubes - fucking in rhythm & sorrow


he looks at me hopeless with tears in his eyes
goes out of the window and up on the roof
naked man, naked man come down!
i… i’ll give you some strawberry cake





(song of the day)

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